Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Proposal for policy for changing the development guidelines

[ron minnich]

The requirement for ATT syntax was set informally in 2001, when I had some
partners from U. Md. who were advocating for Intel syntax. We discovered
that having two syntaxes is unworkable.
> From that time we assumed that everyone would use a common syntax. It

certainly never occurred to us that we had to say it explicitly, since it
seems obvious that uniform assembly syntax is a good idea, and that the
syntax we currently use, and that our tools use, should determine the
assembly syntax for new code.

The change to the guidelines is hence a codification of a practice that
goes back to the project's beginnings.

thanks

ron